I have just a couple more things to show you here to round out the Joomla!…Essential Training Course, and one of those things is the offline mode for Joomla…Web site.…Now that we have this live, and out there on the Web, it may be that you've put…this live just for your client to see, or maybe you are testing it to make sure…that it's working before you want it really live.…There's a number of reasons you might put a Web site out on the Internet, but not…necessarily want the public to see it just yet.…You might still want it to be hidden away.…

And any one of those reasons is a great reason to use the offline mode inside of…Joomla, so let me show you how that works.…In the back-end of Joomla,…we are going to go to the Global Configuration, which I can get to right here…off the control panel.…And right now there is the option here of the Site Offline.…So if I want to take the site offline, all I need to do is click Yes, and say Save,…and when I refresh the front-end of the Web site, what I will see is this page,…

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9/17/2013

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12/13/2012

In this course, Jen Kramer shows how to use Joomla! to build a website from scratch—all without a single line of code. Discover how to create and organize content, add menus and sidebars, change the look of the site with templates, control who creates and edits content, and much more. The course also shows you how to evaluate the quality of extensions, plugins, and templates and how to download and install them. Finally, Jen emphasizes the importance of backing up your Joomla! site, and explains how to create and store those backups.